scholarly journals Concept «Religion» in the Consciousness of Young People: Psycholinguistic Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 164-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Kostruba
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Stimulus Word ◽  
Word Association ◽  
Religious Discourse ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Word Association Test ◽  
National University ◽  
The One ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Church

Objective. The creation of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine is the reason of religious discourse investigation. The aim of this research is to analyze concept “religion” in the consciousness of young people. Materials & Methods. Free word association test (WAT) has been used for psycholinguistic analysis. The respondents have been received a questionnaire with ten words-stimuli (related to religious discourse: clergyman, priest, theologian, church, religion, preaching, sacraments, faith, sin, prayer). In this article, we only analyzed associations for “religion”. The sample consisted of 246 students (biologists, psychologists and publishers) from Lesya Ukrainka Eastern European National University. Results. As a result of the free WAT, 258 responses to the stimulus word “religion” were, among them 106 different associations. Among the most frequent responses were “faith”, “Christianity”, “church” and “orthodoxy”. In general, respondents often associate religion with the church and specific faiths (in this case, Christianity and Orthodoxy). The grammar and logical characteristics of the obtained associations have been analyzed. It has been shown that central paradigmatic reactions to the stimulus word “religion” predominate. The thematic features of the associations to “religion” have been analyzed. Ten different thematic groups have been identified: faith; types and directions of religion; outlook; church; morality; emotions; people; negative evaluations. The most numerous thematic group is “faith” which binds “religion” with faith in God and higher powers. The least numerous thematic groups are “morality”, “emotions” and “people”. Conclusions. Students view religion on two sides. On the one hand, as a set of beliefs or a certain outlook. On the other hand, they restrict this concept to the community of like-minded, who meet in the church. In general, this thematic variety of the associations indicates a high level of students' awareness of the concept of “religion”. Prospects for further study of this problem lie in an in-depth psycholinguistic analysis of religious discourse.

scholarly journals ТАКСОНОМІЯ АСОЦІАЦІЙ ПРОВІДНИХ КОНЦЕПТІВ РЕЛІГІЙНОГО ДИСКУРСУ

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 147-150
Author(s):  
Natalia Kostruba
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Young People ◽  
Word Association ◽  
Religious Discourse ◽  
Association Test ◽  
Structural Approach ◽  
Semantic Categories ◽  
Word Association Test ◽  
Verbal Representations ◽  
The Church

The abstract reveal the problem of the prevailing ideas of young people about the leading religious concepts. The aim of the research is to analyze students" verbal representations of religious discourse concepts. To define the leading concepts, we used a structural approach, which the classic components are: behavioral (prayer, sermon, sacraments), emotional-motivational (faith, sin) and cognitive (religion, church, priest). We used free WAT (word association test) for psycholinguistic analysis. The results of the cluster analysis showed that in the minds of young people religious discourse is represented through two main semantic categories, namely faith and the church - the priest.

scholarly journals THE CONCEPT OF "FAITH" IN YOUNG PEOPLE’S CONSCIOUSNESS: THE PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
pp. 100-106
Author(s):  
Nataliia Kostruba ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Young People ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Religious Discourse ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Word Stimulus ◽  
Verbal Representation ◽  
Psychological Analysis ◽  
National University ◽  
Logical Criterion

The article analyses psychologically-linguistically the verbal representations of the concept of “faith”. A free associative experiment was used in the research to identify the meaning of the examined concept in native speakers’ cognitive consciousness. The respondents received ten words-stimuli related to religious discourse. In this article, we analyze associations evoked by “faith” word. The research sample included 246 students with average age of 18.6 years from Lesia Ukrainka Eastern European National University, students studied biology, psychology and publishing business. During the associative experiment revealing verbal representation of the concept of “faith”, we obtained only 286 reactions that included 131 different associations. The most frequent associative reactions to “faith” were: “hope”, “God”, “in God”, “love” and “prayer”. The processing of the obtained associations for “faith” was carried out according to the grammatical criterion, which allowed us to reveal the predominance of paradigmatic reactions to the word-stimulus. As for the logical criterion, central reactions were most often among associations obtained for “prayer”. The associations obtained for “faith’ were analyzed according to thematic criteria, which allowed us to distinguish ten different thematic categories: religion, God, hope, emotions and feelings, strength, society, convictions, soul, beliefs, name. The most numerous thematic groups were responses connecting “faith” with religion, God and hope. The thematic groups of “soul”, “beliefs” and “name” were the least numerous among the obtained associations. The vast thematic diversity can indicate students’ unawareness about the concept of “faith”. Cluster analysis revealed that the verbalized concept of “faith” is represented by two semantic groups of associations: “hope” and “God - emotions and feelings”. Thus, young people view faith not only through the prism of the divine (religion, spirituality) and its peripheral components (prayer, confession), but also try to understand faith as hope and support. We see the prospects for further research in further psycholinguistic analysis of religious discourse, namely the functioning and use of religious concepts in mass-media.

scholarly journals Psychological Factors of Youth Emigration Intentions: A Review of International Studies

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-41
Author(s):  
Nadezhda V. Murashcenkova
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Psychological Factors ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
International Studies ◽  
International Mobility ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
High Level

The psychological factors of the emigration intentions of young people, the growth of which is observed today in various countries of the world, are analysed based on the data of numerous international studies. The scientific significance of this analysis, on the one hand, is due to the lack of Russian psychological works that systematize and popularize the relevant information, on the other hand, it is associated with the need to subsequently correlate the results of international and Russian studies in order to identify common supra-cultural and specific psychological factors that affect the emigration intentions of young people. The psychological driving forces of the emigration intentions of young people considered in international studies are diverse and correspond to different levels of personality activity (individual, interpersonal and macrosocial). They correlate with general groups of factors contributing to emigration. The factors reflecting the emerging opportunities for emigration are related to positive attitudes towards emigration in general, the consideration of emigration as a way to achieve significant goals, a low degree of attachment to the country of origin, dissatisfaction with the existing living conditions, and positive attitudes towards the country where young people intend to move to. The psychological factors associated with the availability of social support include the support they receive from their families as well as relevant interpersonal contacts they have abroad. The group of factors related to personal resources for overcoming emerging obstacles correlates with expressed career aspirations, high motivation for power and achievements, insignificant motivation for affiliation, extraversion, openness to new experience, desire for risk, change and new impressions, openness to the world and cultural differences, readiness to interaction with others, faith in other religions and nationalities, self-efficacy, ability to cope with the ambivalence of emerging emotions and feelings, a high level of education, proficiency in foreign languages, and experience of international mobility. The obtained data can be used to conduct empirical psychological studies on the driving forces of the emigration activity of young people in Russia and other countries.

Structure of Response Patterns to a Repeated Verbal Stimulus and Action of Noise and Odor on Originality

1978 ◽  
Vol 42 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1323-1331 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis Pons ◽  
Monique Baudet
Keyword(s):  
Stimulus Word ◽  
Word Association ◽  
Normal Subjects ◽  
Verbal Stimulus ◽  
Association Test ◽  
Response Patterns ◽  
Word Association Test ◽  
Two Samples

Two samples of normal subjects ( ns = 73 and 100) were tested to observe how vision and audition, noise and odor affect responses to repeated presentations of the stimulus word in a word-association test. Patterns of responses reflect the alternation of vision and audition, noise increases repetition and alternation of responses and odor increases originality. This allows us to examine how the associations vary with an affective and somatic sensory perturbation.

scholarly journals Investigation of Mathematics Teacher Candidates’ Conceptual Structures about “Measurement” through Word Association Test: The Example of Turkey

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (12) ◽  
pp. 162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmet Erdogan
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Teacher ◽  
Teacher Candidates ◽  
Word Association ◽  
Association Test ◽  
Word Association Test ◽  
Conceptual Structures ◽  
Measurement And Evaluation ◽  
The One ◽  
Study Participants ◽  
Free Word

The purpose of this research is to determine mathematics teacher candidates’ conceptual structures about the concept of “measurement” that is the one of the important learning fields of mathematics. Qualitative research method was used in this study. Participants of this study were 58 mathematics teacher candidates studying in one of the public universities in Turkey. The free word-association test was used as data collection tool. The “Measurement” stimulus concept was presented to mathematics teacher candidates through the free word-association test. A total of 118 response words obtained from the test have been arranged in frequency tables. The response words divided into 9 categories with the help of content analysis. A network of concepts has been created that the conceptual structures of mathematics teacher candidates about “measurement” using the frequencies and categories of response words. The findings of this study indicates that the response words with the highest frequency of the mathematics teacher candidates related to the “measurement” stimulus word are evaluation, exam, length, meter, test, etc. and the categories of response words are meaning of measurement, measurement and evaluation lesson, measurement learning domain, measurement in daily life, measurement units, etc.

Successful Mediated Priming via Associative Bonds

1964 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 235-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phebe Cramer
Keyword(s):  
Stimulus Word ◽  
Word Association ◽  
Association Test ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Probability Of Occurrence ◽  
Word Association Test ◽  
Group 2 ◽  
Response Group ◽  
Mediated Priming ◽  
Group 1

The effects of indirect priming via forward and reverse associative bonds were investigated using a word-association test to measure changes in associative frequency. Preceding each cue-stimulus on the association test were three priming words, selected because they were known to elicit the desired response (Group 1, N = 38) or to be elicited by it (Group 2). For every stimulus word studied, forward indirect priming (Group 1) increased the probability of occurrence of the desired response. The effects of reverse indirect priming (Group 2, N = 50) were random and insignificant. Some implications of these findings for future research were suggested.

A Stronghold of Catholicism

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Detlef Pollack ◽  
Gergely Rosta
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Church Attendance ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Life After Death ◽  
Belief In God ◽  
Church Hierarchy ◽  
Institutional Structures ◽  
The One ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Church

Compared to other Western European countries, Italy stands out in its rather high level of religiosity. Weekly church attendance has consistently exceeded the one third mark; confidence in the church has increased slightly; belief in God has remained at a high level; and belief in life after death, and in heaven and hell, has increased. The chapter investigates why both church practice and people’s ties to their faith have remained more or less stable since the 1980s. The shorthand answer is diversity in unity. Just as the Catholic movement is supported vertically by the high density of personnel and the developed institutional structures of the Catholic Church, so it is embedded horizontally in a climate of acceptance of Catholicism practised as a habit. At the same time, it is able to give mobilizing impulses both to the church hierarchy and its members.

The Syntactic-Paradigmatic Shift in Learning Disabled and Normal Children

1973 ◽  
Vol 6 (8) ◽  
pp. 518-523 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nettie R. Bartel ◽  
J. Jeffrey Grill ◽  
Helmut W. Bartel
Keyword(s):  
Private School ◽  
Stimulus Word ◽  
Word Association ◽  
Learning Disabled ◽  
Older Children ◽  
Normal Children ◽  
Memory And Attention ◽  
Word Association Test ◽  
Low Iq ◽  
Better Than

Forty-eight children in a private school for the learning disabled (LD), and 48 children in public school classes were administered a word association test of 50 stimulus words. All children performed best when the stimulus word was a noun and performed most poorly on prepositions. Older children performed better than younger, overall. No significant differences were found between normal and LD children. Among LD children, a significant interaction between IQ and age was found, with young children of low IQ performing most poorly. Young, low-IQ children also showed perseveration to a much greater extent than did any other group, resulting in a significant age X IQ interaction on perseveration. Discussion centers around memory and attention as possible explanations for the findings.

scholarly journals Mapping Young NEETs Across Europe: Exploring the Institutional Configurations Promoting Youth Disengagement from Education and Employment

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie-Luise Assmann ◽  
Sven Broschinski
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Central Eastern ◽  
Employment Education ◽  
Eastern European Countries ◽  
High Level

AbstractOver the past decade, the number of young people neither in employment, education, or training (NEET) has reached a seriously high level in many European countries. Previous studies have illustrated the heterogeneity of this group and that they differ considerably across Europe. However, the reasons of these cross-country differences have hardly been investigated so far. This study explores how the rates of different NEET subgroups are conditioned by various institutional configurations by applying fuzzy-set Quantitative Comparative Analysis for 26 European countries using aggregated EU Labour Force Survey data from 2018. The analysis reveals that institutional causes of being NEET are as diverse as the group itself. Thus, high levels of young NEETs with care responsibilities are found in countries with a lack of family-related services in conjunction with weak formalised long-term care as it is true in mostly Central Eastern European countries. In contrast, high rates of NEETs with a disability are prevalent mainly in Northern European countries where generous and inefficient disability benefit schemes exist that create false incentives to stay away from the labour market. Finally, high proportions of unemployed and discouraged young NEETs are found in those countries hit hardest by the crisis and with high labour market rigidities, low vocational specificity, and a lack of active labour market policies like in the Southern and some Central Eastern European countries. The results illustrate that young people face very different barriers across Europe and that country-specific measures must be taken to reduce the number of NEETs in Europe.

scholarly journals ATTITUDES TOWARDS FAMILY AND REPRODUCTION AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE UDMURT REPUBLIC (BASED ON THE DATA FROM "YOUTH OF UDMURTIA - 2019" MONITORING PROJECT)

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 311-321
Author(s):  
K.N. Obukhov
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Sexual Debut ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Health Concerns ◽  
Wave Nature ◽  
Udmurt Republic ◽  
The One ◽  
High Level

The article describes the key attitudes towards family and reproduction of young people living in the Udmurt Republic. The analysis used data obtained from an online survey of young people in the period from April 1 to August 31, 2019 (n=600) supplemented by up-to-date statistics of the local office of the Federal State Statistics Service for the Udmurt Republic for 2019 and 2020. Based on these materials, it is concluded that young people generally tend to look for a sexual partner and create a family, the sexual debut age stabilizes at the level of 17 years for men and 18 years for women, general health concerns increase among young people although sexual behavior prevails at a sufficiently high level of risk. Generally, based on the survey materials, we can confirm the desire of young people to have an average of 2 children with a slight bias towards the one-child family model. There are basic differences in attitudes towards family and reproduction among residents of cities and rural areas of Udmurtia. On the basis of statistics, it is concluded that currently in Udmurtia, the "wave nature" of the sex-age structure of the population remains, as well as a tendency to maintain concurrent high rates of marriage and divorce, which indicates that young people are unprepared for marriage but at the same time they acknowledge its value.

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